Last night Johnny Cash, Cyndi Lauper, Garth Brooks, Jewel, Talking Heads, Pat Benetar, and Alana Miles, to name a few, were live at the Chatterbox Pub in South Minneapolis. Or so one would think if [...]

Throw the fork on the floor and use your fingers. I speak from experience.I have a jacket that reminds me of an oven mit. Not sure why, because it isn't shaped like one. Another weird [...]

Anyone remotely familiar with my acoustic guitar work (cough cough) knows I’m a huge Leo Kottke fan. A friend and I attended his annual Thanksgiving weekend show at the Ordway Theater in St. Paul last [...]

If you've never seen one of these before, no, it is not a fancy bong, it's a Galileo thermometer (more info here). A little phallic looking, isn't it?I received one as a Christmas gift one [...]

This is a picture of me on Thanksgiving at the tail end of gorging myself on the piles of food provided to us at my parent's house. Don't I look happy and thrilled to be [...]

If you're a brain surgeon, please don't take that literally. Put the scalpels down, man.For lack of anything else to write about, I am going to give myself 7 minutes to type whatever I'm thinking [...]

Today is Thanksgiving, the day that officially kicks off the holiday season. Woo hoo! Before heading off to my mom's to munch on mounds of turkey carcass and stuffing, I shall display my Thanksgiving cheer [...]

Meet my cat Devo. He hasn't really been himself lately because I haven't been around much, so yesterday I decided to take him out with me while I was gone and try to make the [...]

You might as well be a nutcase - at least that makes it entertaining.Let me preface this by saying that unless a person is Enid from the movie Ghost World or Olivia Newton-John, they're not [...]

Hello, I am Doctor Edward, a.k.a. "Doctor Asshole".I work across the street from a coffee shop with prices that I think are too high and I tell them that a lot. The fact that I [...]

I'm going to see Leo Kottke on Sunday night and there's one problem: he starts at 8:00.Do you know what this means??? I'm going to miss Desperate Housewives.It starts at 8pm on Sunday as well. [...]

Dear Subway:You helped Jared shed the pounds, and now maybe you should develop a sandwich that helps him shed whatever it is that makes me want to punch him in the piehole- er, I mean, [...]

We have a "Buy 10, get one free" punch card system here at the coffee shop. It is quite popular with the customers... I know one guy in particular that comes in to get a [...]

Screw the details of the Zippo Hot Tour show we played last night... I want to talk about this guy: Last night we were loading our gear in via freight elevator upstairs at the Quest [...]

Where was I? Where am I? Good questions. Right now it's 6:54am and I'm sitting in the coffee shop.It's been an interesting week... I feel like it's been a year or two since last Friday. [...]

Including rodents. Last night either a human going through some sort of identity crisis or an actual hamster by the name of "Roller" sent a request to be Iced Ink's friend on MySpace.People sometimes ask [...]